Blog, page 9
page 9 of 80Continuing through the writing archive.
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
A $10-20 citizen science sensor for streams that logs several data points to flag unusual water quality.
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Old corded phones wired point to point between a house and a tree house over cheap RJ45 or three-wire cable.
Read postIdea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Equilateral triangle LED PCBs that join into regular polyhedrons; built as the Dodecahedron PCB.
Read postIdea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Cheap wind-chime devices tossed into Vancouver's boulevard trees to give the city its own ambient tone.
Read postIdea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A festival mesh network of birdhouses that pass messages to each other with ultrasonic bird chirps.
Read postIdea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
A dandelion-shaped sculpture of a reflective earth sphere with steel tubes ending in LEDs that show the night sky from outside.
Read postIdea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
A 20-foot glowing tentacle monster made of flexible vinyl ducting and LED strips, with eyeball monsters in a Pepper's ghost dome head.
Read postIdea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that reminds you to eat, drink and move when deep focus makes you forget your body.
Read postIdea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
A 3D mouse for CAD that is a magnetically levitated cube with a 9-axis motion sensor inside.
Read postIdea 070 - CNC Pointillism
A CNC machine with a paintbrush holder that paints a photo as 2mm dots, one dot at a time.
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